With millions of consumers snapping up tablets running iOS and Android, Microsoft had high hopes of competing its Windows RT operating system. So far, consumers have yet to fully embrace Windows RT, or Windows 8 for that matter. In fact, many analysts are pointing to Windows 8 as part of the reason for the woes in the computer industry.

A Dell executive recently stated that demand for the company's first Windows RT device, the Dell XPS 10, has been weaker than expected. "Demand is not where I would like it to be at this point in time," Neil Hand, head of Dell's tablet and high-end PC business, told CNET. "The amount of market information about it is not good enough, and the market sentiment is still pretty negative."

Hand also says that the Windows app experience "has not been as strong as it needed to be."

Dell and Hand aren't alone in criticism of Windows RT. Windows RT is the first version of the Windows operating system specifically designed to work with ARM-based processors from NVIDIA, QUALCOMM, and others.

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has also noted that sales of Windows RT devices have been disappointing. Samsung even ditched plans to launch its own Windows RT device in the U.S.

The upside to poor demand for Windows RT tablet for consumers is that weak demand has forced prices down.

I've seen and used a large number of the cheap Android tablets. Have never seen one that didn't work well, and with which the user wasn't happy. They get even more happy when you do the "test drive" thing where you find a guy with an iPad and/or Transformer, Surface, whatever else, and have everybody do the basic things that people actually do on tablets side-by-side.

Then the people with the inexpensive Android things feel even better about their purchases, while the people with the iPads et al just get mad and go away.

Everyone I've seen, with the exception of one, has loved their cheap Android tablet right out of the box. One person said their initial one was wonky, so it got replaced and the replacement is perfectly fine.

I'm under the impression that only nerds are leaving feedback for such things on Newegg etc. Whining about things that normal people don't have any interest in.

When it comes right down to it, the cheap, no-name Android tablets are just as good as anything else for web surfing, email, Facebook and Angry Birds. And that's all the vast majority of people care to do on a tablet.